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About Olivier De Schutter
- Olivier, Baron De Schutter (born 20 July 1968) is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights.
- He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014.
- He is a Professor of international human rights law, European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris.
- He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
- He is the first chair of the Belgian Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development and he co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) [1], a group of experts from various disciplines and regions who work together towards developing proposals for food systems reform.
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